NOTES BY THE WAY

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21967, 16 December 1936, Page 15

NOTES BY THE WAY

LAMB VALUES

„'(" 'jjidering the high prices rul,'lVlambs the fact of the skin L s'iuld not be overlooked. A to-day is worth anything from to 5s apd on a 35 or 401b lamb ..represents 1., d to lid per lb. "come-back" is not an unmixed l«ing'as far as exporters are Sed, as should the wool and market come down, which is funlikely if Japanese activity for ll eases, exporters will be left *hi«h-pviced skins on their Ss It is undoubted that the Sit lamb rate has been based to l e extent on the present high ue of skins. It is worthy of note t the Southland price for lambs en the works opened on Tuesday !»k was the same as in Christen Coarse wool skins prepense'in the south, which augurs 1 for the retention in Canterbury the present schedule until the rious works close down for the iristmas. There has been no mutton scheme issued, but it is understood .that oorters are paying up to sid per lb ■ 48's. This works out at 22s a ad It is stated, however, that this ice is ruling for much heavier sights, and that up to 26s has been id for good wethers.

MARLBOROUGH CROPS

A Christchurch visitor who has it returned from the Nelson and arlborough provinces told "Strager" yesterday that farmers in ese parts were having an excepinally favourable season. Most of e oats in Marlborough had been [ and they had stooked up in a anner that indicated a yield in adace of normal. Wheat was comencing to. change colour, and the ospects were also for a yield betr than the average. One crop of as noticed had been cut, but it mid be two or three weeks before t harvesting of peas would be neral. The crops of peas were iking particularly well, but should y weather set in, and conditions ere tending that way at the oment, they would be affected. A 11 of rain, in most of southern irlborough would not be unwelme. Stock were looking well, and ere should be a good crop of lambs jdy for the works.

THE BARLEY ACREAGE

The estimate of the barley area «hsie 1936-37 season is 25,300 acres. £ acreage compares very favourjj with that of, the preceding to of 20,659 acres. The statistics office has'' classified the differit varieties, which show that the d Chevalier'is still the favourite, though ifsost considerable ground, this respect on the previous year." le Chevalier proportion of the timated total area this year was 1.31 per cent, and last year 29.56. le Spratt-Archer is the next most ipular in use at 21.80 per cent., the umage Archer is third with 19.89 rcent, and the Goldthorpe Spratt urth with 14.07 per cent. These ur varieties total 20,000 acres, or I per cent, of the total area. There la small proportion of barley unb the classification of "other wieties," some of which may come Mer the malting classification, but f the remainder Cape and skinless present 17.61 per cent.